Posted by on December 26, 2019 3:00 am
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Europe’s centre held and environmental activists stood up to be counted – as did ordinary people on the street, from Sudan to Hong Kong and beyond. We look at the international news events that gave us hope

Click here for 2019’s reasons to be fearful

It was a year of high anxiety – but unlike the Mel Brooks movie of that name, there was not a lot to laugh about. Nerves were frayed by worries about a Middle East conflagration, the destructive antics of a narcissistic US president and an accelerating climate emergency.

Too many rulers forgot their job was to serve the ruled, not kill, repress, rob or bamboozle them. The idea of multilateral cooperation and international law took another beating. Division, separation and isolation were recurring themes in a global landscape scarred by fear.

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